Swift or Grift? New Government Project or Scene from "Gulliver's Travels"?
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Each year, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky releases a report entitled the “Festivus’ Report on Government Waste.” He catalogs different projects that the federal government has used taxpayer dollars on...
show moreIn the episode, Matt, Winston, and Josh play a game in which they guess whether or not the experiment is from Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” or from Rand Paul’s Festivus Report. Then, the group discuss the larger implications of satire and the purposes of scientific investigation. In short, they follow the purposes of satire itself: they use works of classical literature to try and better understand our own culture and our own foibles.
For a copy of this year's Festivus' Report (and others), click on this link here: https://www.paul.senate.gov/?s=festivus
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